Tag: MIT Press

A cheetah in full pursuit of a gazelle across the African savanna during a dust-filled chase at golden hour

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, cosmology, Darwin's Black Box, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, goal-directedness, intelligent design, James Shapiro, John West, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, MIT Press, molecular biology, Natural Sciences, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian paradigm, next generation, Oxford University, paleontology, physics, researchers, scientific evidence, Seattle Pacific University, Stephen Meyer, Taking Stock at 30 (series), teleology, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago}

On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Third Way and EES thinking shows that mainstream science is moving on a compass heading that is right in the direction of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, anthropologists, braincase, brains, Christof Koch, evolution, evolutionary biology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, hominids, Homo (genus), human brain, humanity, humans, Katerina Harvati, Mark Hubbe, Michael Marshall, MIT Press, natural selection, Nature Communications, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neutral evolution, New Scientist, phenotypes, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Phys.org, random mutations, skulls, universe}

Science Journal: Humanity’s Big Brains Evolved “For No Particular Reason”

_{Casey Luskin
July 8, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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This is tantamount to saying the human brain, chief marvel in the cosmos as far as we can tell, evolved because, well, why the heck not? Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, complementarity, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, dispositionalism, Edward Feser, emergence, Etienne Gilson, final causality, Günter Bechly, Lex Fridman, mathematics, metaphysics, Michael Levin, MIT Press, naturalism, necessity, ontology, origin of life, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, purpose, Richard Sternberg, science of purpose, specified irreducible complexity, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, Tufts University}

Science, Purpose, and Michael Levin: The Discussion Evolves

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A leading spiritually agnostic (at least, that is my impression) biology researcher, Michael Levin at Tufts, is himself a proponent of teleology in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, teleology}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

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The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, complex systems, complexity, engineers, innovation, Lee Cronin, MIT Press, modularity}

Responding to Lee Cronin: A Modular Theory of Assembly

_{William A. Dembski
July 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Despite its fatal defects, Assembly Theory does raise the prospect of what a successful theory of assembly might look like. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Evolution News, Forbes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Joana Xavier, MIT Press, neo-Darwinists, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Perry Marshall, persecution, physiologists, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy}

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

_{Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chickens, eggs, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, First Cause, intelligent design, living systems, Michael Behe, MIT Press, natural genetic engineering, Peter Corning, Platonic forms, teleonomy, William A. Dembski}

Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!

_{Daniel Witt
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist? Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, Casey Luskin, design logic, E. coli, Engineering Research Group, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, MIT Press, NASA, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, systems biologists, Waldean Schulz}

Biology as Reverse Engineering

_{Brian Miller
January 13, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, evolution, Georges Cuvier, intelligent design, materialism, MIT Press, paleontologists, somatic cells, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Systems Biology, teleology}

The Return of Teleology to Biology

_{Brian Miller
August 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, BioLogos Foundation, faith, ID the Future, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Jay Richards, MIT Press, National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, Science, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, The Design Revolution, theology, Thomas Woodward, William A. Dembski}

Answering Another Objection to Intelligent Design: “You Can’t Prove God Exists”

_{Casey Luskin
February 22, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Now it’s possible that physics-based arguments for design could extend the argument further than you can go within biological design. Read More ›